MEDIA IS LYING ABOUT ETHNIC CLEANSING<\/p>\n
The American people are being assaulted with a smear campaign which\u00a0claims the Serbs are carrying out a racist plan to drive Albanians from Kosovo.<\/p>\n
This is simply a lie.<\/p>\n
The following statement was written by Americans. It is based on\u00a0information from OPPOSITION sources in Serbia and sources in the Serbian\u00a0Orthodox Church including the Decani Monastery in Kosovo, legendary for\u00a0its kindness to Albanians. We’ve also been helped by information from\u00a0Albanians in Kosovo who are opposed to the KLA, the ethnic Albanian terrorist\u00a0group supported by NATO.<\/p>\n
1) People are not fleeing Kosovo because of Serbian ethnic cleansing\u00a0they are fleeing mainly because of widespread saturation bombing of villages\u00a0by NATO. In some areas, Government troops are evacuating people of all\u00a0ethnic groups for their own safety. This is not a false concern.<\/p>\n
One should know that Kosovo is the most heavily populated part of\u00a0Yugoslavia and one of the most populated areas of Europe. It is a war\u00a0crime to bomb Kosovo.<\/p>\n
Most of the refugees are in fact going NORTH into other parts of Serbia.<\/p>\n
Reports from Belgrade are that the 80,000 Albanians who were already in\u00a0Belgrade are now housing as many as 20 people to an apartment. Would\u00a0Kosovo Albanians flee INTO SERBIA if the Serbs were carrying out racist\u00a0genocide against Albanians?<\/p>\n
Serbs, Gypsies (Roma) and Turks are also fleeing Kosovo – and they are\u00a0also among the people going in to Macedonia, though more go North intoSerbia.<\/p>\n
Actually, all ethnic groups, ALL PEOPLE, are running away from NATO\u00a0carpet bombing. The percentage is the same among Albanians, Serbs, Turks and\u00a0Gypsies (Roma). About one-third of all these groups have left Kosovo.<\/p>\n
2) This has produced a TERRIBLE refugee problem for Serbia, which for\u00a0years has been overloaded with ONE MILLION refugees from Bosnia and Croatia.\u00a0More refugees is the last thing the government wants or needs. Peopleeverywhere are already exhausted by the bombing which makes sleep impossible.<\/p>\n
The Northern part of Serbia, already impoverished by 8 years of terrible\u00a0Sanctions, now has to take care of hundreds of thousands of refugees on\u00a0top of the million ALREADY there. Apartment houses are crammed with people.\u00a0Any of these buildings could become a mass grave.<\/p>\n
Everyone in Kosovo has had a missile explode within hearing distance –that has caused most of the panic. In addition, the KLA (the ethnic\u00a0Albanian terrorist group) has launched an all out terror campaign. They\u00a0attack Serbian forces. When the Serbs counterattack, the KLA hides in\u00a0populated towns, putting the local inhabitants in the middle of a\u00a0terrifying fire fight. This also causes people to flee.<\/p>\n
The NATO bombing campaign, cynically directed at civilian targets\u00a0RANDOMLY AND UNPREDICTABLY AND AT NIGHT – all over Kosovo – is intended to\u00a0produce terror and to induce people to flee, thus destabilizing Serbia and\u00a0putting pressure on Macedonia to knuckle under to NATO or be stranded with a\u00a0“refugee disaster.”<\/p>\n
It is a crime to bomb already politically volatile Kosovo.<\/p>\n
3) There are hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens among the\u00a0Albanians in Kosovo. They came from Albania in the last decade because that country\u00a0has largely fallen apart into total poverty and lawlessness. They came to\u00a0Serbia to escape these problems. These people are of course easily\u00a0frightened by social upheaval. And of course they have no papers —\u00a0hence they are a) hesitant to go North into Serbia where they might need\u00a0identity papers and b) easily persuaded to repeat the lie that “the Serbs ripped\u00a0up my papers” to curry favor with the NATO forces which have made clear\u00a0that that is what they want to hear.<\/p>\n
These people make up a large proportion of the people fleeing back into\u00a0Albania (where they have family) and into Macedonia (where they of\u00a0course do not want to admit they were illegal aliens in Serbia).\u00a0Serbia has already persuaded tens of thousands of refugees of all\u00a0nationalities who fled to Macedonia to RETURN to Pristina.<\/p>\n
4) NATO is at war with the people of Yugoslavia and with the Serbian\u00a0people in particular. A part of this hotly persued war is a propaganda war. No\u00a0one should be surprised that the mass media, which is controlled by the\u00a0war-makers, is spreading DISinformation to support the war.<\/p>\n
To show the NATO side as good — the Western media has to present the\u00a0other side as bad. But one should “read between the lines” and see where the\u00a0propaganda fails.<\/p>\n
One should notice that most Albanians are adequately dressed. Sometimes,\u00a0the Western camera shows Albanians in designer clothes. One should ask\u00a0— are these the “oppressed people” the media is talking about? Most of the\u00a0interviewees speak good English – and with an American – not British\u00a0accent. How come?<\/p>\n
Do not be manipulated by pictures. Ask questions, tough ones — the sort\u00a0you would ask when you’re considering an expensive purchase, because\u00a0this war could be VERY expensive, and not just in money.<\/p>\n
For instance, the TV presents us with the image of people crying and the\u00a0narrator says they were terrorized by Serbs. But all we KNOW is: people\u00a0are crying.<\/p>\n
The new US Ambassador at Large to the War Crimes Tribunal was\u00a0interviewed on Tuesday afternoon on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” He reported that\u00a0he has interviewed many refugees and they all tell EXACTLY the same story,\u00a0even using the SAME WORDS — they had to leave in 5 minutes, they were\u00a0told to take nothing, etc. Doesn’t this prove their stories are true, heasked?<\/p>\n
No it does not. Anyone with police experience knows that if every\u00a0witness tells EXACTLY the same story using the SAME words — it proves only one\u00a0thing: THE STORIES HAVE BEEN COLLECTIVELY REHEARSED. It is a dead\u00a0giveaway.<\/p>\n
We charge that this is WAR PROPAGANDA. It has been fabricated by the\u00a0Covert Services of the U.S., of Germany, of England and of France. And we, you\u00a0and I, the American people are the targets of this campaign of lies.<\/p>\n
Remember. Ibrahim Rugova, the world-recognized leader of Kosovo\u00a0Albanians, has denounced the bombing and accused the KLA, our allies, of carrying\u00a0out a campaign of terror and of using the chaos of bombing to try and\u00a0assassinate him and other moderates.<\/p>\n
Let us not be stampeded. Let us not allow this government of liars to\u00a0launch an even more terrible war based on studio sound bites and\u00a0backroom scripts demonizing the Serbs, who are decent human beings just like us.<\/p>\n
This is a very dangerous situation and our government is going against\u00a0the advice of many people with the experience to know better. This has the\u00a0potential of becoming far worse than Vietnam. If NATO is not stopped,\u00a0then may God help us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MEDIA IS LYING ABOUT ETHNIC CLEANSING The American people are being assaulted with a smear campaign which\u00a0claims the Serbs are carrying out a racist plan to drive Albanians from Kosovo. This is simply a lie. The following statement was written by Americans. It is based on\u00a0information from OPPOSITION sources in Serbia and sources in the … <\/p>\n